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A few stories that caught our attention this week include the top 5 questions VARs should ask when selecting a document management  partner, how the Long Beach police department uses OCR to catch criminals and how QR codes are key in the upcoming holiday marketing efforts and more.

In our Follow Friday series, we feature a few industry news finds to share with you.  We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

Top 5 Questions VARs Should Ask When Selecting a Document Management Partner - Channel Partners
By Jim True

Businesses are constantly looking for better ways to improve efficiency and protect sensitive information while making information more accessible when needed. As a result, chances are that document management will be considered an ideal candidate in helping businesses reach their objectives.Here are five questions you can use to help determine which vendor is right for you.

How Automatic License Plate Recognition (LPR) Technology Works - boingboing
By Mark Frauenfelder

An officer from the Long Beach Police Department shows how automatic license plate recognition technology works. He demos a system installed in a patrol car equipped with four cameras. "Each camera is recording at all times, so no matter what mode you're in, it'll be recording off all four of the cameras… it shows you a picture the car, it shows you a picture of the plate that it caught and then what it does is it takes that image and using optical character recognition (OCR) it will compare it to a database. In our case we are running multiple databases -- we have 'wanted felony vehicles,' 'be on the lookout,' '24 hour hotsheet,' 'wanted by detectives,' 'LA County warrants,' and our 'gang unit.' In addition to this we have 'stolen vehicles,' which are available to everybody in the state. Currently in our database we have 24,000,000 plus reads."

Read more to see how QR Codes will affect this holiday season.

Here at Accusoft we are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet.  In our Follow Friday series, we feature a few of our finds to share with you.  Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

3 Imaging Issues for Hospital Executives to Address - Becker's Hospital Review
By Kathleen Roney

Joe Marion, principal of Healthcare Integration Strategies, discusses three imaging implications that hospital executives should not forget when addressing health information management. With so many initiatives to pursue — meaningful use attestation, telehealth and telemedicine, health IT infrastructure and data governance just to name a few — hospital executives can easily lose sight of some key health IT issues that need attention.

The FBI Finally Abandons Paper, Goes All-Digital - Mashable
By Alex Fitzpatrick

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's agents have finally made the leap into the future, upgrading from paper files to a digital case management system at a cost of more than $600 million. Sentinel, the agency’s all-digital system, features a web browser-style user interface that allows agents to enter and review information about cases or suspects. Agents can do quick searches to see if one of their cases has any similarities to other cases, an improvement which should speed up investigations.

Read more to see what else caught our eye, and to share what you've found this week!

On July 3, 2012 two inventors, Erica Cooksey and Els (William) Withers, from Accusoft were awarded a United States Patent for the Methods and Apparatus for Performing Image Binarization. 

"An intelligent algorithm for binarizing an image is an important component in many real-world applications," said Erica Cooksey, Software Engineer at Accusoft. 

Read more on Accusoft's awarded patent!